Lok Sabha Elections 2024: ‘Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru couldn’t imagine…', Priyanka Gandhi in Rae Bareli

She besides attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his connection connected the run trail.

Addressing enactment workers successful the Rae Bareli constituency, the Congress wide caput said, "Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru undertook movements truthful that the people's rights could beryllium strengthened. They could ne'er person imagined that a authorities would travel that would telephone them traitors and accidental (to people) 'if you springiness america 400 seats, we volition alteration the Constitution'."

"They could not adjacent person imagined that the authorities itself would effort to weaken our people," she said.

Priyanka Gandhi besides referred to farmers' protests during the British Raj.

She said, "The farmers' protests during the clip of Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru -- the archetypal clip erstwhile Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru were arrested, it was successful Rae Bareli erstwhile they had travel to participate."

"Since then, during each the fights and elections successful Rae Bareli, determination was ideology and information connected 1 broadside portion connected the different broadside it was panic and a (kind of) authorities that ne'er considered the radical 'sarvopari (above everything)'. In this fight, you ever ensured triumph for information and the principles of democracy," Priyanka Gandhi said.

Congress person Rahul Gandhi is contesting the elections from Rae Bareli, a constituency held by his parent Sonia Gandhi for the past 2 decades.

Priyanka Gandhi besides claimed that Indira Gandhi was not aggravated erstwhile she mislaid the elections from Rae Bareli.

"She learnt from that decision … She deliberated, took different path, and won the adjacent elections," she said.

During her speech, the Congress person besides tried to onslaught a chord with the audience.

"This is the ungraded with which the humor of my household is mixed. This is the ineffable onshore for which your ancestors sacrificed their lives. Today, we are warring for the self-respect of the radical and their rights. We volition person to combat this conflict with strength. This is the astir pious ungraded of the state and we are warring for everything that our ancestors fought for," she said.

Priyanka Gandhi besides credited the Congress' Amethi campaigner Kishori Lal Sharma for teaching her however to behaviour elections.

"Kishori Lal Sharma ji, our campaigner from Amethi, is contiguous connected the stage. I person learnt however to behaviour elections from Kishori Lal Sharma ji," she said.

"This time, I told him 'I volition marque you contention the elections and you volition win'. That is wherefore I person travel here, to marque my elder member (Rahul Gandhi) and Kishori Lal ji contention the elections."

Rae Bareli and Amethi spell to the polls connected May 20.

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Published: 07 May 2024, 07:03 AM IST